In May, Michigan State agreed to pay $500 million to victims of Larry Nassar.

Nassar, 54, molested at least 250 girls during the 20 years he worked at MSU as an osteopathic phsician and served as team doctor for the USA Gymnastics national team.

He's serving federal and state prison sentences of more than 300 years.

MSU reserved another $70 million for future settlements.

“What I’d really like to accomplish, along with the board and administration, is to take us from where we are now to being a model institution for compliance and ethics,” Wittner said in Corporate Counsel.

Prof Wittner taught at Michigan State's law school for the past four years with the title of Professor of Law in Residence. His courses included litigation procedure and products liability. He was a visiting professor at MSU's law school from 2010 to 2013.

Before teaching law, he spent 20 years in the law department at Nissan North America. While there, he helped the company create its compliance program.

Wittner earned his undergraduate degree in 1975 from Michigan State and his JD from Wayne State in Detroit in 1979.